Police: Shooter Stood On Home's Lawn, Fired 17 Shots

January 13, 2006|The Morning Call

BUSHKILL TOWNSHIP

Seventeen shots were fired at a house in Bushkill Township while residents slept early Thursday, police said.

A mother and her two children were home at the time of the shooting at 505 Ashwood Drive, said Bushkill Township police Cpl. Michael McLouth. No one was injured. Police arrived at 2:41 a.m., 11 minutes after the shooting stopped, he said.

The home is owned by Sandra and James L. Schaadt Jr., according to Northampton County real estate records.

The shooter stood on the front lawn, aiming up into the second-story bedroom windows, McLouth said. The front of the house was peppered with bullet holes. About six rounds were found in a bedroom ceiling where a 22-year-old woman was sleeping, and another bullet passed through a wall into another bedroom where her 17-year-old brother was sleeping, he said.

A witness reported seeing a red or maroon car driving with its lights out on Sprucewood Court, which is 50 yards from the shooting scene, McLouth said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Bushkill police at 610-759-9588.